August Vollmer letters : Berkeley, Calif., to Jane Hentze, [Alaska] : TLS, 1950-1955.

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August Vollmer letters : Berkeley, Calif., to Jane Hentze, [Alaska] : TLS, 1950-1955.

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Concerns Vollmer's involvement with police work including helping English, Canadian and Japanese police study the U.S. system of police work, about Samuel Chapman, Hentze's son and his studies in police work, and about Vollmer's health. Also includes two letters from Lida Miller, Vollmer's housekeeper about his health and death, and an article about Vollmer's death.

1 v. (28 items) ; 33 cm.

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University of California, Berkeley. School of criminology

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Chapman, Samuel G.

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Educator (professor at University of Oklahoma); government official; law enforcement officer and official; authority on use of dogs in police work; b. Samuel Greeley Chapman; of Reno, Nev. From the description of Papers, 1902-2004. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70973629 ...

Miller, Lida Brooks

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Vollmer, August, 1876-1955

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August Vollmer was the Chief of Police in Berkeley, Calif. from 1905-1932. He wrote and taught at the University of California, Berkeley about police science. Vollmer is considered by many to be the father of modern American police methods. From the description of August Vollmer letters : Berkeley, Calif., to Jane Hentze, [Alaska] : TLS, 1950-1955. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 56712945 Biographical Sketch ...

Berkeley (Calif.). Police Dept.

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Hentze, Jane.

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